You Face God and the Camera at the Same Time by Margaret Haines, 2016, 10'

Courtesy of the artist

Presented at VISIO. European Identities. New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video (2018) The work is a retelling of Genet’s 1956 play The Balcony set within Amsterdam’s Hilton Hotel during the summer of 2016. The script includes Feminist theorist Kate Millett’s critique of the play from her seminal book Sexual Politics (1970), and is performed by artist Sands Murray Wassink and Clara Amaral as the photographers and Anna Maria Pinaka and Geo Wyeth as the prostitute Chantal, the embodiment of the spirit of the revolution.

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